Rank #3193
Mike Danson
Net worth $1.0B
data services · United Kingdom
- Born
- Dec 01, 1962
- Age
- 63
- Source
- data services
- Residence
- London
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Law Degree, University of Oxford
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mike Danson is the CEO of GlobalData, which provides data analytics to such customers as Schweppes and Saab.
- The son of two teachers, neither of whom went to university, Danson went to Oxford University and got his start in consulting.
- Danson founded an earlier company, Datamonitor Financial, in his London flat in 1990, reportedly funding it with credit cards.
- He took it public and reportedly pocketed more than $200 million when it was acquired in 2007. GlobalData later bought back parts of that first business.
- The grandson of Wigan miners, he now owns his hometown's soccer team, Wigan Athletic FC. and rugby team Wigan Warriors as well as left-leaning publication New Statesman.
- His Danson Foundation offers up to 60 paid internships in London each year to undergrads of Oxford's St Anne's College, where he graduated in 1982 with a law degree.
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